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" Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow. "
Mary Pilon
Reality
Future
Virtual Reality
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" The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context. "
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Rome
People
" As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit. "
Mary Pilon
Hanging
Athletes
Make
" I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket. "
Mary Pilon
Ball
Child
Involved
" The phenomena of taking photos and sharing them isn't new, but with Instagram being mobile, both have become cheaper and faster, producing the instant gratification of knowing how our shots look in our palms. "
Mary Pilon
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Knowing
New
" Some Americans, like those working in government or nonprofits, know the consequences of having their salaries public. "
Mary Pilon
Consequences
Working
Know
" While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world. "
Mary Pilon
Baseball
American
World
" I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went. "
Mary Pilon
Quickly
Recession
Came
" To play 'Tetris' is to knowingly opt in to something that has no end and no way of winning. "
Mary Pilon
End
Play
Way
" Despite the laserlike focus it generates, 'Tetris' has no clear endpoint and no easily defined opponents. Unlike with most other video games, you're playing only against yourself, without any concrete goals other than to keep on fitting blocks into other blocks. "
Mary Pilon
Yourself
Focus
Goals
" If bingeing on bad emergency-room-themed television has taught me anything, it's that crisis situations bring out the best and worst in people. "
Mary Pilon
Television
Best
Me
" Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an athlete's brain may be at its most vulnerable. "
Mary Pilon
Performance
Career
Line
" When most people think of Tae Kwon Do - which, in the United States, is not all that often - they think of sparring, a form of competition that both men and women perform at the Olympics. "
Mary Pilon
Men
Competition
People
" Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like an abyss, void of real people. "
Mary Pilon
Alone
Creative
Time
" There are good reasons for not wanting to host the Olympics. The Games can be costly and, in spite of their patriotic overtones, can unintentionally expose a nation's weaknesses to the world. "
Mary Pilon
Wanting
Good
World
" For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter? "
Mary Pilon
Lie
Cheating
Money
" Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets. "
Mary Pilon
Before
Print
Long
" Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers. "
Mary Pilon
Computers
Back
Women
" Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from wielding sabers or masks. "
Mary Pilon
Competing
Cost
May
" London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates. "
Mary Pilon
Buffalo
Detroit
Halfway
" Ultimately, the joy of sports is social and psychological, both in the ballpark and around a television on Super Bowl Sunday. "
Mary Pilon
Sports
Television
Sunday
" In reporting, you will often be humbled by the courage others have in telling and trusting you with their tale, no two alike. "
Mary Pilon
Will
Others
Courage
" Historically, companies haven't hesitated to end their relationships with professional athletes amid scandals. "
Mary Pilon
Relationships
End
Professional
" Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans. "
Mary Pilon
Immigration
Belief
Immigrants
" Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work. "
Mary Pilon
Waiting
You
Lightning
" One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep. "
Mary Pilon
Sports
Great
Beer
" In the modern road-running era, digital photography has intersected with weekend-warrior culture, creating a golden age of social-media humblebragging. For some, the marathon course is sacred ground. For others, it's a personal movie set. "
Mary Pilon
Photography
Marathon
Culture
" Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss. "
Mary Pilon
Page
Live
History
" The America's Cup World Series was created in 2011, with an eye toward conjuring more off-cycle interest and marketing opportunities. It coincided with the ascent of foiling catamarans, a type of boat that goes faster and looks almost Photoshopped, the way it practically floats in air when it races. "
Mary Pilon
America
Boat
Eye
" Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have sparked a booming industry of so-called influencers - people with large-scale followings who are paid considerable sums by large companies to tout their products or ideas. "
Mary Pilon
YouTube
Facebook
People
" Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to the 1859 bestseller 'Self-Help.' "
Mary Pilon
Happiness
Bible
Human